The president of Redeia -the electricity matrix -Beatriz Eda, assured in an interview with El País.There is no zero risk, telling France or Italy“, Since these countries have also had” similar problems. “
“There is no zero risk, there is no human activity free from risk and less when we are talking about a physical system that is governed by such rigorous rules that also occur at 300,000 kilometers per second.” He also defended the management of the system from “in 50 years it did not happen” so “Things are going well” He added.
When asked if the blackout could have avoided having a better interconnection with France, he insisted again that “depends on the volume of the accident. Zero risk does not existtell these countries. “
It is clear that the Spanish electrical system has failed
Editor has not felt at all “unauthorized and explained that it is normal that the responsibilities require private operators.” We are a private company (…). We must be the first to help reveal the causes, It is the most serious accident to which a country can face. “
In the same way he indicated that “it is clear that the Spanish electrical system failed” and gave the same explanations as the president of the government, Pedro Sánchez, when he was asked what happened. “15,000 megawatt were lost in five seconds” and, although “the first time the disconnection occurred, the system was recovered, the second time, the second time a second and a half later could not be recovered“.
Renewable energies are not unsafe technologies
Although he has excluded that the fault lies with renewable energies. “It was not a problem that there was an excess of renewable energies. (…) They are not unanady technologies“And he said that” we cannot say why we don’t know “that the first disconnection came from photovoltaic plants.
Also has excluded nuclear insufficiency Since they worked in Holy Week, but that “other times they have not been disconnected and nothing has happened”.
Defended the management of the crisis
The president of Redeia sent a message of tranquility to the population, since “when you know what happened, all necessary measures will be taken so that it does not happen again” and praised the replacement of the system, which It was “exemplary, a company Super fast. “
And although every minute that passed without electricity was “an eternity, if an accident like this with other similar accidents is put in the context It is a result“He said.” I would like to know what happened, but at zero risk does not exist, there is no human activity free from risk, “he concluded.
